Bruce Drake

CIA Funnels Hundreds of Millions to Pakistan's Spy Agency Despite Suspicions

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Despite suspicions that the Pakistani intelligence agency continues to help Taliban extremists, the CIA has sent it hundreds of million of dollars since the Sept. 11 attacks because it believes the support has paid off in information about militants operating in the country, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The support for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, has been the subject of a longrunning debate within the U.S. government that has usually led to the conclusion that "there is no other game in town" when it comes to information on militants who operate in the country's tribal belt where almost every terrorist plot in this decade was hatched, the Times says.

A former senior CIA official was quoted as saying, "They gave us 600 to 700 people captured or dead...Getting these guys off the street was a good thing." Another former national security official said that, despite the suspicions about where the ISI's loyalties lie, "you've got no smoking gun from command and control that links them to the activities of the insurgents."

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planxan2

1:21PM Nov 15th 2009

Your tax dollars at work. Well, that's where some of the money comes from. Most of the CIA's spending money comes out of illegal drug deals and arms sales, of course. Be sure to fly Old Glory extra high today in pride.

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Charles Queen

1:23PM Nov 15th 2009

There are and always have been certain people that not even the president can control nor has any control over,neither do the senate,the congress and for that matter not even the people of this country.Many things happen and take place all the time without the knowledge of all of these people combined.The CIA is one of the shadow groups that are untouchable,the NSA wields even more power than the CIA does and they to are untouchable and will remian this way.I workd for a time for one of them and I do know what I am talking about.Both do work hand in hand though with the JCS

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Pundit

1:57PM Nov 15th 2009

Bruce Drake of course fails to mention that the Funding for continuing & increasing; w's 'Get Bin Laden in Pakistan campaign' PASSED UNANIMOUSLY in the US Senate 99-0!

Or that pre w; Afghanistan supplied just 14% of the world's Opium/heroin and post w, it is now 93%!

The corrupt Karzai's are as evil as the cheney's are proven to be.

It is way past time for the US to DECREASE occupation as we use INCREASED hellfire armed UAV drones instead of loosing more arms, legs & heads from our living & breathing US/NATO troops! or suffer the same fate as Alexander the great and others since then.

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Pundit

6:01PM Nov 15th 2009

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gvpal52

3:04PM Nov 15th 2009

The CIA has always known how to buy results that keep us safe. To bad the president is there enemy now too.

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matrixcl55

5:42PM Nov 15th 2009

And the United States economy and pysche is in shambles. The damn country, or the middle class taxpayer, is broke with no jobs and we are still printing money for Pakistan??? Let them eat cake....charity, or fraud, starts at home....

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Luette

7:53PM Nov 15th 2009

and Obama attacks the CIA, will not investigate a terrorist attack on his watch but will create a big top circus for political reasons and place New York at risk....could it be that all those videos of Obama stating he is a muslim, and calling the koran Holy...are true? The koran written by a rock worshipping Pedophile, who married a four year old child, among others.....are you SERIOUS?

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Luette

7:54PM Nov 15th 2009

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tvtaerum

9:02PM Nov 15th 2009

That's it? This is news? If the CIA wasn't paying for information there'd be reason for concern. What happened to analysis - or is this just another intel Rorschach test?

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govindabliss

10:04PM Nov 15th 2009

WHY WOULD I FEAR COUNTRIES WITH FAR MORE MORALS AND ETHICS THAN AMERICA? THEIR CULTURE ISNT DEGRADED LIKE MINE,NOR IS THERE COUNTRY GOING BROKE BECAUSE OF MISLEADERS..2+2 IS 4 AMERICA,,NOT 6.

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govindabliss

10:18PM Nov 15th 2009

THEY PUT A BLACK FACE ON THE NEW WORLD ORDER SO AMERICANS WOULD CHILL..OBAMA IS A GREEDY MATERIALISTS WHOS PAID MILLIONS[LIKE BUSH] TO TAKE THE HEAT FOR ALL OF THE CRAP THAT THE NEW WORLD ORDER / ILLUMINATI COME UP WITH TO ROB AND CONTROL US. ITS SAD THAT ANYONE COULD BE SO EVIL AND GREEDY THAT THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO BE HATED ,THRETENED, ETC , JUST TO BE WEALTHY AND POWERFUL. WHAT THEY DONT REALIZE IS THAT THE PERSON WITH THE REAL POWER MEETS US ALL AT THE END IN THE FORM OF DEATH. DEMONS THINK THAT THEY CAN ENJOY FOREVER AND SUCK THE BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS FROM OTHERS. THEY HAVE NO CLUE THAT DEATH IS FAST APPROACHING. JUST SEE THE DEMONIC MENTALITY AND THE BLATANT IGNORANCE OF REALITY THAT GOES WITH IT...

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govindabliss

10:24PM Nov 15th 2009

PUNDIT! YES, PUNDIT! THE WORD THAT IS NOW BEING PUMPED OUT EVERY 5 SECONDS IN AMERICA! ON CAR COMMERCIALS EVEN..DO ANY OF YOU IDIOTS REALIZE HOW THE GOV CONTROLS YOUR THINKING AND SPEECH BY BTRAINWASHING YOU THROUGH GOV CONTROLLED T.V.? TURN OFF YOUR IDIOT BOXES AMERICA,,READ A BOOK, THINK FOR YOURSELVES FOR ONCE. STOP IMITATING CNN AND HOLLYWOOD. THEY RE JOB IS TO PERPETUALLY MISLEAD YOU..PLEASE GO TOP YOU TUBE AND TYPE 'FEMA COFFINS'..SEE HOW PREPARED THEY ARE FOR ALL WHO DIE FROM H1N1 VACCINE! STAY AWAKE AMERICA!

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